littlecatalyst
3rd July 2003, 05:07 PM
ha ha ha it's not an ap-- though somewhat appropriate here i think...... radical software was a magazine that came out in 1970-- a lot of video/film history classes talk about it, but it's been almost impossible to find (until now BUA HA HA)it's now all in pdf at http://www.radicalsoftware.org was quite the radical video magazine (art, activism, tvcluture, guerilla television....)cool to see the ideas they were pushing, the rants from people like Paik before they got famous, and all their other rad little articles....totally dope!
and what coolness!!!!!originally from blurb on the radSoft site:It is helpful to remember that video art, one version at least, was born subversive. It was a product of people whose goal it was to challenge America's then static information order by throwing television back in its face, using a new medium, small format videotape, which seemed ideally suited to the job. Though few were MFAs, many, not just the Raindancers, were educated in the arts and were at home in the realm of art and ideas about art. But most were clear that art itself was not the whole point.
and what coolness!!!!!originally from blurb on the radSoft site:It is helpful to remember that video art, one version at least, was born subversive. It was a product of people whose goal it was to challenge America's then static information order by throwing television back in its face, using a new medium, small format videotape, which seemed ideally suited to the job. Though few were MFAs, many, not just the Raindancers, were educated in the arts and were at home in the realm of art and ideas about art. But most were clear that art itself was not the whole point.